Saturday, November 23, 2013

Planning a Holiday Meal Project

I love to apply math to real life situations. I created the following math project for my fourth grade students. I have included all materials necessary to implement this project in the following PDF except for the grocery advertisements. (This information is also available online because most grocery stores post their advertisements online). I also created a .Studio file of a turkey silhouette. I cut out one turkey per student for their project.

Thanksgiving dinner will be served at your home this
year for ten people.Using the local
supermarket advertisements, plan the meal’s cost using the following menu and
serving recommendations. Calculate the quantity needed. Remember you need to round up to the next
amount since you need enough food for everyone.Calculate the cost of each item by multiplying the quantity by the cost.
Do all of your calculations in the space provided and circle your answer.

Transfer your quantity
and cost calculations to the “Planning a Holiday Dinner” table.

Calculate the total cost of the meal by
adding up all of the items to be purchased in the “Planning a Holiday Dinner”
table.Write the total cost in the
table.

Write a check for the total cost of the meal.

Cut out a picture of each item, if available,
with the price from your grocery advertisement. Using a piece of construction paper, decorate your
project with these pictures. Cut out the check and attach it your project along
with the “Planning a Holiday Dinner” table. You may create this project in a
book format or as a poster. When writing the check, the dollar amount is in word form, the cents are written as a number of cents over a hundred. For example. $135.45, is written as One Hundred Thirty Five 45/100 with a line going through the rest of the space.

First, open your Silhouette program. Go to my blog entry and download the file. You do not have to save the file; you can just open the file. If you want to save the file, you can do so but it is not necessary to access the file. After opening the file, nothing will appear on your screen. You must go to your Silhouette program; the file will automatically appear as a file at the bottom of your Silhouette screen.

If you would like a PDF file of any of my projects, please leave a comment.